Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — ELECTRIC WIRES IN HIS BED [ARTICLE]

ELECTRIC WIRES IN HIS BED

8o Sea Captain Believed and Fired a Volley to Awaken Citizens In Gotham Hotel. New York. —Charles Hoeser, a retired sea captain, blazed away with a rifle and revolver from his window In the Astoria. Neighbors called Policeman Mlndheim, who made his way cautiously to Hoeser’s door. The captain confronted him, with the revolver and rifle ready for action, a grizzled, wild-eyed giant. "Oh, you’ve come at last, have yon?” he said. “I’ve been trying to attract a policeman for fifteen minutes. Someone has put a lot of electric wires and batteries in my bed and I want you to take them out. And I want you tc arrest whoever put them there.” Mlndheim took the captain before Magistrate Leach, in Long Island city police-court, who held him in SSOO bail for examination. The captain owns tne house in which he lives and other realty in the neighborhood.